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Poster printed by McCaw, Stevenson & Orr, Ltd Dublin & Belfast 1915. As the war dragged on into 1915 and beyond the British Army became more and more desperate for soldiers. While in 1914 there was a great surge of volunteers the longer the war lasted the more voluntary recruitment levels fell.
Initially the authorities sought to revive recruitment by resort to moral blackmail and propaganda but in January 1916 introduced conscription, The Military Service Act (1916) wasn't applied in Ireland due to political opposition. In late 1914 The Midland Tribune reported that a man called Aloysius Brennan caught tearing down a recruitment poster in Tullamore was prosecuted and sentenced to one month's imprisonment with hard labour. In the days before radio and television public posters were a very important method of mass communication.
The Irish diaspora were also targeted for recruitment. From Ireland's Own Magazine 7th July 2017. The posters shown originally appeared in First World War Posters (2013) Steak-knife said: As the war dragged on into 1915 and beyond the British Army became more and more desperate for soldiers.
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That's why the British government did a deal with the suffragettes - stand on street corners humiliating men into joining up with white feathers & we'll give you the vote later on Weirdly this is rarely mentioned, you'd think the battle was won by a few women chaining themselves to railings or disrupting the grand national Brilliant thread thank you. It would be really interesting to know just how much research went into forming these posters. Conscription was not in place in Ireland due to 'political opposition'.
That's a hell of an understatement bob3344 said: That's why the British government did a deal with the suffragettes - stand on street corners humiliating men into joining up with white feathers & we'll give you the vote later on Weirdly this is rarely mentioned Click to expand...
Quite a few leading Suffragettes went later into the British Union of Fascists, Mercurial talked about this in connection with his insistence that "gender critical" Feminists were manifesting "White Feminism" but it is historically correct. This and issue it raises though really call for another thread. It would also be interesting to read a comparative study on the posters aimed at Ulster Protestants and those aimed at the rest of the population.
Whatever the artwork was it didn't seem to work Strange area. The most Victoria Crosses awarded I think went to Asian troops (India) if my reading from years back is remembered aright. Steak-knife said: Poster printed by McCaw, Stevenson & Orr, Ltd Dublin & Belfast 1915.
As the war dragged on into 1915 and beyond the British Army became more and more desperate for soldiers. While in 1914 there was a great surge of volunteers the longer the war lasted the more voluntary recruitment levels fell. Initially the authorities sought to revive recruitment by resort to moral blackmail and propaganda but in January 1916 introduced conscription, The Military Service Act (1916) wasn't applied in Ireland due to political opposition.
In late 1914 The Midland Tribune reported that a man called Aloysius Brennan caught tearing down a recruitment poster in Tullamore was prosecuted and sentenced to one month's imprisonment with hard labour. In the days before radio and television public posters were a very important method of mass communication. The Irish diaspora were also targeted for recruitment.
From Ireland's Own Magazine 7th July 2017. The posters shown originally appeared in First World War Posters (2013) Click to expand..
. Nice to see that the Punch cartoon style was sidelined in favour of presenting a better image of Irishmen all the same. Probably wanted something.
Lumpy Talbot said: Whatever the artwork was it didn't seem to work Strange area. The most Victoria Crosses awarded I think went to Asian troops (India) if my reading from years back is remembered aright. Click to expand.
.. Wrong and in any case irrelevant to this thread.
That fellow in the first poster looks like a right young squire. Exactly. Big difference to how the Irishman was portrayed a few decades earlier.
1872, I think...
Lumpy Talbot said: Conscription was not in place in Ireland due to 'political opposition'. That's a hell of an understatement Click to expand..
. This was January 1916 remember before Easter. IMO it's accurate.
If Conscription had been introduced in Ireland they'd have had a war on two fronts. That is exactly why Westminster stopped short of conscription in Ireland. The Canadian one with its 'Small Nations Must be Free' would never have been used in Ireland.
For obvious reasons. It would have resonated with the independence movement. Lumpy Talbot said: If Conscription had been introduced in Ireland they'd have had a war on two fronts.
That is exactly why Westminster stopped short of conscription in Ireland. Click to expand..
. If the war had gone into 1919 they would have brought it in. They found it very hard to get the sons of the more prosperous farmers to enlist.
I think there was an RIC superintendent who remarked the farmers sons would not enlist for love nor money. Steak-knife said: If the war had gone into 1919 they would have brought it in. Click to expand.
.. (April 18, 1918) 'Lloyd George attempted to temper this by announcing that he would also implement Home Rule for Ireland, attempting to co-opt the report of the Irish Convention .
The bill was pushed through in a week’s time with a majority of 198 votes. A day later, the Irish Parliamentary Party left the Commons in protest; this would mark the end of (non-abstentionist) Irish representation in Westminster outside of Northern Ireland. The Military Service Act become law on April 18.
The same day, leaders of the Irish Parliamentary Party, Sinn Féin, the All-for-Ireland Party, and Labour met in Mansion House in Dublin, formed the Irish Anti-Conscription Committee, and began to plan how would they oppose the realization of conscription in Ireland.' parentheses said: They found it very hard to get the sons of the more prosperous farmers to enlist. I think there was an RIC superintendent who remarked the farmers sons would not enlist for love nor money.
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Same problem now with Brexit and Northern Ireland. Try getting a farmer anywhere in Northern Ireland to say Northern Ireland should turn its back on the single market. paywall, unfortunately.
Even history costs money these days ...
Anti-conscription campaign Ireland’s most complete, and bloodless, victory over British imperialism The Irish labour movement’s leading role in the campaign proved a pyrrhic victory, creating internal tensions within trade unions and drawing hostility from their British counterparts www.irishtimes.com Completing the headline-' Anti Conscription Campaign Ireland's Most Complete And Bloodless Victory Over British Imperialism' One looks forward to the notion appearing that the Irish Times has always been a bit of a commie rag.
